Wellington waterfront and harbour architecture
Waterfront Notes is an independent site about Wellington’s waterfront and harbour architecture. It lives on the old clydequaywharf.co.nz address, which once carried marketing for the Clyde Quay Wharf apartment development. We have no connection to the developer, architects, builders, body corporate or residents of the building, and nothing here is for sale. More about this site.
What you’ll find instead is plain writing about the harbour edge of Te Whanganui-a-Tara: how a finger wharf became a passenger terminal and then a street of homes, what salt air and southerlies do to buildings, and how owners and body corporates keep coastal buildings in good order.
Start here
- Finger wharf to passenger terminal: a short harbour history
- A street on the water: designing along a finger wharf
- Materials that survive Wellington’s marine air
- When the wharf reopened to the city
Latest notes
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Timber in Marine Exposure Zones: Treatment, Durability and Fixings 15 October 2026
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Wellington Wind, Driven Rain and the E2 External Moisture Clause 15 October 2026
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Long-Term Maintenance Plans for Waterfront Bodies Corporate 15 October 2026
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Decks, Screens and Planters in the Sea Spray Zone 15 October 2026
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A Walk from the Wharf Around Oriental Bay 15 October 2026
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Salt Air and Painted Exteriors on the Harbour Edge 15 October 2026